Nearest Book Meme

December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment

I just saw this meme on Andrea Hernandez’ Ed Tech Workshop blog…here goes:
The Rules:

Get the book nearest to you. Right now.
Go to page 56.
Find the 5th sentence.
Write this sentence – either here or on your blog.
Copy these instructions as commentary of your sentence.
Don’t look for your favorite book or your coolest, but really the nearest [...]

Dec

3

Blogging with Colleagues – Part 2

December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

I have been (sporadically) blogging since 2006! For the first time this summer, I had the opportunity to try blogging with my colleagues, which you can read more about here.
This past Fall, our Upper School (grades 6-8) Division Head decided to incorporate some Web 2.0 tools into her administrative repertoire. Rather than passing out the [...]

Aug

24

My Fall 2008 Power Apps

August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Every Fall I try to pick one or two new tools to pilot with teachers and students. Last year was the Year of Sketchup and Voicethread, which we successfully used with students in a number of grade levels. The year before that we experimented with Edublogs and Garageband for the very first time, and both [...]

Feb

10

Teaching with Technology – The Electric Company

February 10, 2008 | 1 Comment

I am a child of the Seventies. My kindergarten class was the very first group of 5-year olds who entered kindergarten already having watched the first year of the new PBS show, Sesame Street. My kindergarten teacher had to rethink large portions of her curriculum because we all came to school that year already knowing [...]

Jan

23

Maiden Voyage with Voicethread

January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

I’ve been very anxious to begin playing with the new educational version of Voicethread, and I finally found a willing set of guinea pigs in our 2nd Grade Team. If all goes according to plan, we should begin recording student voices later this week. For $10, it has been relatively easy to set up an [...]

Jan

23

6th Grade Blog Club — A Few First Glimmers of Hope

January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment

As I wrote in “I May Be Nuts, But…” a few months ago, I am now the advisor of a 1x/week blog club for 6th Graders. Although the first meeting attracted boys only, by the end of November we had 7 girls in the club as well. The kids were completely pumped about the opportunity [...]